Liz Mandeville, born in Wisconsin, is an American vocalist and blues musician. Raised in a musical family, she began playing guitar at age 16 and started her professional career performing in coffee houses around Wisconsin. In 1979, Mandeville moved to Chicago to study theater and immersed herself in the city's blues scene, learning from local artists like Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers and Kansas City Red. She graduated with honors from Columbia College with a degree in music and toured professionally for ten years across the upper Midwest and Canada with the R&B band The Supernaturals. Mandeville released her debut album Clarksdale in 2012 under her own record label, Blue Kitty Music. Her notable achievements include being inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame in 2013 and having her song "Scratch the Kitty" remain Number 1 on the Cashbox Top 20 charts for twenty-two weeks in 2010.
